Business Basics to run your small business
One thing I’ve learned about entrepreneurs is that we’re always learning – about our industry, about marketing, about business. We go to courses and seminars and conferences. They’re a great way to learn as well as to network with other entrepreneurs. But one of the easiest and cheapest ways to learn is by reading business
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Sunday I ran into a colleague at a social event. She was still waiting for an email I had sent the week before. Monday morning I checked her email address and resent it. Tuesday she emailed me saying she still hadn’t received my message. I checked the address on her email – yes, it was
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I received the following email from a prospect: “I like your email writing – it’s interesting how many writers write horrible emails!” It’s not just writers. Look in your in-box and you’ll likely notice a similar trend – email with poor grammar, typos, spelling errors and badly constructed sentences. Your writing style may not matter
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Social networking sites, particularly Facebook, are getting a lot of press these days. While I have joined Facebook, mainly as a way to connect with some of my out-of-town friends, I’m focusing on LinkedIn as my online networking tool of choice. I was first introduced to LinkedIn by someone I met in a coaching program.
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Ever since I decided to become an entrepreneur, I’ve studied marketing, business building, and business strategy. I’ve read books, magazines and ezines. I’ve attended teleseminars, participated in internet forums and spoken to other entrepreneurs. After all this studying, I began to suspect something. Then I started researching my book The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur. I did
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Once you’ve created your 90-day goals, you can’t just put them in a drawer and hope they’ll materialize in 3 months. You need to put them into action. I’ve experimented with a number of systems for implementing my goals. What works best for me – and many other entrepreneurs I’ve spoken to – is to
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With so much information on the web, it’s easy to lose hours “doing research”. A simple way to keep on top of information without wasting time is a little known tool called Google Alerts. I’ve been using Google Alerts for several months. I track my name, my blog and a handful of industry keywords that
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Welcome to 2008! I love the beginning of a new year – it’s full of possibilities. Besides sleeping in and lounging around with my family, I spent a couple hours today playing with a spreadsheet of a projected cash flow for the coming year. My family thinks I’m nuts but I wanted to finish my
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In my post about planning for 2008 I mentioned creating 90 day goals and action plans. This planning method was introduced to me by my coach and has worked very well. I’ve also discovered that many other entrepreneurs use this planning method – probably because it works. How do you set an effective goal? What’s
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With only ten days left in 2007, I’ve been thinking about my goals and plans for 2008. These are not the infamous ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ that everyone makes with good intentions and then forgets about by January 15th. I’m talking about short and long term goals for my business and action plans for the next
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